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E. GARDA AUTOMATIC INTERLINING APPARATUS FOR TYPE SETTING AND CASTING MACHINES Filed April 18, 1922 Sheets-Sheet 4 Zrz ve/LZO/fl 25/6/1660 Garcia Patented June 10, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ENRICO GARDA, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

AUTOMATIC INTERLINING APPARATUS FOR TYPE SETTING AND CASTING MACHINES.

Application filed April 18,1922. Serial No. 555,364.

To all i072 0922 it may concern Be it known that I, ENRIGO GARDA, a citizen of Italy, of 68 Rue Raumur, Paris, France, have invented an Automatic interlining Apparatus for Type Setting and Casting Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is primarily adapted to avoid pasting printing types obtained by means of machines for casting and setting movable types.

It is known that with these machines, the movable types ar grouped in compact bundles in which the lines do not constitute separable elements capable of being easily handled separately, so that the manipulation of the composition obtained by means of these movable types requires a certain professional skill and that a wrong or clumsy action suffices for delaying the publication of any edition, of a newspaper for instance.

It is also known that a considerable ad vantage is derived respectively, on the one hand, from the composing in movable types owing to the ease with which the corrections can be effected and, on the other hand, from the Composing in the form of blocks lines, owing to the ease of manipulation of the types.

The present invention has for its object an interlining apparatus more particularly applicable to machines for casting and setting movable types, this apparatus being devised in such a manner as to permit to automatically put in place space-lines or leads of any number of points and of any justification at each line. of. current or tabular composition, formed by these machines.

According to the invention, the space-lines having the desired number ofpoints are superposed in a magazine made in such a manner as to be capable of containing spacelines of one and the same justification for current composition and, simultaneously, if necessary, elements of space-lines permitting the passage of the rules, in the case of tabular composition.

These space-lines, of one and the same justification or of various justifications are gripped at th base of the magazine by pincers of special construction, comprising extracting fingers the length of which is adjustable. so as to permit oi extracting from the said magazine, at each displace ment of the pincers, either a single spaceline, or several space-lines according to the requirements.

These incers receive, after the formation of each line by the setting and casting machine, a rocking movement of predetermined amplitude during which the spaceline or the single space-line element on the whole of the space-lines or of the space-line elements held together between the fingers of the pincers are successively brought opposite a pasting device adapted to cover, in the case of application to machines for easting and setting movable types, with a varnish or a viscuous or adhesive liquid, one of the faces of the single space-line or spaceline element or of the uppermost space-line or space-line element in the case of multiple extraction; then these space-lines or spaceline elements are brought above the double curtain closing the galley and finally they are released and introduced in the said ourtain behind the last line which has just been composed and brought opposite the galley so as to permit:

(a) The simultaneous introduction in the galley, by the push-piece of the setting and casting machine, of the last composed line and of the single space-line, pasted or rendered adhesive, or of the bundle of spacelines the uppermost of which is pasted or rendered adhesive.

(Z2) The assemblage of the pasted spaceline with the last of the lines previously introduced in the galley.

When the automatic interlining apparatus of this invention is fitted to a machine for casting and setting movable types, these types are preferably orovided with a recess adapted to receive t e space=line (or the space-line element) pasted or rendered adhesive and adapted to sufficiently connect together the movable types constituting a line of current or tabular composition, so as to allow of composing in distinct files by means of these movable ty es, thus rendering it possible to easily and individually manipulate each of the composed lines and consequently to facilitate the correction of the composition.

The adjustment of th length of the extracting fingers of each pincers, which allows of extracting at each stroke of the latter any desired number of space-lines or of space-line elements, premits moreover to facilitate the adjustment of the opening in view of the making up into pages, by allowmould blocl-zs and bl.

ing tozextract very easily, in the composition-formed, one or more of the space-lines (or oi'the space-line elements) placed by the interlinin apparatus in the said composition, so that the said apparatus may also beconveniently fitted to any casting and setting. machine.

In order that the invention may be clearly understood, there will be described hereafter, with reference to the accompanying drawing and by way of example only a :io rm' of constructionot the automatic interlining apparatus fitted to a machine for casting and setting movable types which latter are provided with a recess adapted to receive a space-line.

ig. l is a perspective view of the movable type produced by the setting and casting machine. 7

Fig. 2 is also a perspective view oi a line element composed of separate types connected by a pasted space-line. Fig. 3 is a front elevation oi the i nterlining device.

. Fig. 4: is a plan view.

Fig. 5 .is a corresponding; end view.

"Figs. 6 and 7 are elevations, on an enlarged scale, of the interlining devic Figs. 8 to 10 are detail views of the maga- Figs. 11 to 13 are other detail views showing a device automatically ensuring the adjustme nt of the position of the spateiine opposite the galley.

in; accordance with H inven ion. the the machine to? castin and sottin 'iovahle types are pr a -e erably profiled for producing types having the. shape shown in 1. that to say pro vided on one of their :es with a ss 1.

Thisrecess correspcuds to the th'lClillQSF and to the height ot a space-line S which previously coated, on one of its faces. with an adhesive or viscuous liquid is brought in contact with the OiliSP Q portion l of the types. so as to allow of constituting lines which can be easily and individually Iili'. nipulated the relative adherence of he mo vabletypes and of the space-line permitting. moreover to easil eliect corrections.

The space-lines are )astcd or coated and. mechanically brought into contact with the offset portion of the types by means of the device the whole of which is illustrated in Figs. 3 to 5 or" the drawing.

This device ,is mouutcd ljietween two verl i cal checks 3 secured on a bed-plate carried by the usual table oi the niachinc'tor casting and setting movable types, that to say in such'a position that the space-line is completely outside the line channel and the galley.

It comprises a magazine. illustrated in detail Figs. 8' to 10, adapted to contain the space-lines of any number of points and of any justification, but which may also simultaneously contain, as will be explained. hereaiter, space-line elements for pcrn'iitting current composition as well as tabular composition. This magazine is composed of two metal blocks (3 which, being suitably carried by cross-bars '1' coiu'lecting both cheeks 3 at their upper part. can be longitudinally moved and secured on the said cross-bars at any desired place, :a-eordiug to the justiliation of the space-line.

These two l'iloclis 6 form the side walls of the magazine and each curry, on their lower face a horizontal platen 8 adapted to support the space-lines 2 which, arranged above one another between the two blocks 6 are maintained, at the rear. by each oi the two vertical partitions 9 secured to the blocks (3 and. at the front, by a vertical blade 10 integral with a rod 11 the position oi which. in each oi the blocks (3, may be vertically adjusted for providing. between the upper face of the horizontal platens 8 and the lower edge of the blades 10, a sullicieut interval for permitting the issue of the space-lines. either by the individual cxtraciiou ot :ach of them or by the simultaneous extraction of several space-lines.

Each of the rods ll is. for that purpose. subjected to the action oi a spring 5 which tends to push it downwardly and carries. at its upper screw-iiireaded portion. a nut 'ltl pern'iitting to adjust the outlet passage of the space-lines1 each rod 11 i is adjusted in its vertical displacements by the engagt-uueut of the lower part of the corresponding blade 10 in vertical notches (5 formed in each blocl-z (i.

The space-line magazine thus constituted is also provided with siu pienieniary supporting parts such as 6 reinovably mounted. in suitable number on the cross-bars T and between the blocks 6 i orining the ends of the magazine.

These removable supporus. which are adapted to sustain. at various points of their long-tin space-lines of large size. permit also of siniultainmusly charging the magazine with space-lines ol" difl'erent justifications. in case the coinj'iosition, comprises. ior iustance, tables divided by columns between which it is necessary to arrange vertical rules which would be stopped by s aet- -lines in one piece.

In this vase. these s iacelines of smaller justilication are suiiported at a point of their length by one of the supports (a and extracted from the magazine by one of the extracting members described below and gripping the space-linc at another point of its length.

Each removable support is constituted (Figs. 9 and 10) by a block 6" with a rod 11 carrying a blade 10 separating two ad jacent space-line elements and the position of which is vertically adjust-able, so as to provide between its base and the horizontal platen 8 of the block 6 a sufficient interval for permitting the passageof one or more space-lines, or of one or more space-line elements, as above explained.

Under this magazine is mounted the device producing automatically, after each composed line has been brought opposite the galley, the extraction of one or more space-lines or space-line elements, the pasting or coating of one of these space-lines or of these space-line elements and the introduction between the double curtain closing the galley.

The control of this automatic interlining device is obtained, in the example illus trated, by a cam 13 actuating, in the machine for casting and setting movable types, the hooked lever 14 bringing the composed line opposite the galley 15.

This cam 13 is provided, for that purpose, with a crank-pin 16 engaging in a cam 17 integral with a rack 18 which is guided in a longitudinal slide-way of the bed-plate 4t and is in engagement with a toothed segment 19 rigidly secured on a shaft 20 mounted on the lower part of the cheeks 3.

The shaft 20, which is subjected, on the other hand, to the action of a returning spring 21 (Fig. has rigidly secured at each of its ends a lever 22, the head 23 of which is in the shape of a fork and is provided with axes on each of which are respectively mounted the arms 26 and 27 constituting pincers adapted to extract, at each rocking movement imparted to the shaft by the cam 13, either one or more space-lines (or space-line elements) con tained in the magazine, to bring the spaceline or space-lines or space-line elements in contact with the pasting member and to transport them opposite the galley 15.

The arms 26 of each pincers are connected together by tie-bars 28 resiliently connected. by springs 29 to the supporting axes 24 on which can rock and slide the said arms 26 which are provided for that. purpose with longitudinal slide-ways 30.

The arms 27 are connected together by an llj'l'tl cross-bar 31 and a lower cross-bar 32, which latter is also resiliently connected, at each of its ends, by a spring 33 to each of the axes on which can respectively rock andino've longitudinally the said arms 27 provided with slide-way 34.

Both arms 26 and 27 forming each pincers are, moreover, held against each other at their lower part and against the control lever 22 carrying them by another spring 35 attached, on the one hand, to the arms 27 and, on the other hand, to the said lever 22.

The upper end of the arms 26 is suitably shaped for engaging, in the position of rest illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6, under the rear face of the first space-line to be extracted from the magazine, and this end of the arms mounted on the cross-bar 31 so that it can' he vertically adjusted on the latter. The front face of the member 37 forms a heelpiece 37 adapted to fit against the upper edge of the lower spncedine or of several of these spacelines, according as the apparatus is to successively extract each spaceline or slmultaneously several space-lines, the variable height of the heel-piece 37 being determined by the position of the member 37 on its supporting cross-bar and can thus be adjusted according to the thickness or to the number of space-lines which are to be extracted from the magazine. It re sults from this adjustable arrangement of the spring-fingers 36nnd of the members 3? respectively gripping on their two opposite edges the space-lines which rest, on the other hand, on the upper face 38 of the arms 26 and 27, that the interlining apparatus allows to introduce at will in the composition one or more pace-lines of any thickness and that it thus offers, in the latter case, the advantage of facilitating the adjustment of the blank space, in view of the making up into pages, by permitting to extract very easily one or more of the space lines which have been placed in position by the interlining apparatus.

Between the two extreme series of arms 26 and 27 can be arranged other series of these same arms which are respectively mounted on the corresponding cross-bars 28, 31 and 32 indicated above, either for gripping at several points of their length space-lines of great length, or for gripping at one point of their length small spacelines which are, on the other hand, supported at another point of their length by the re movable supports 6".

It results from the above arrangement that each oscillation of the axis 20 in the direction of the arrow X (Figs. 3 and 6) produces the corresponding oscillation of the levers 22 carrying the pincers and that in the position of the heel-piece 37 and of the finger 36 illustrated by way of example in the drawing, the last of the space-lines contained in the magazine and held on its opposite edges between the adjustable heelpiece 37 of the arm 27 and the resilient adjustable finger 36 of the arm 26 is extracted from this magazine and brought, as

'will be explained hereafter, opposite the galley 15. 7

During its travel, the space-line, held as just described, is brought into contact with a rotary member adapted to coat one of the faces of the said space-line with a suitable adhesive or viscuous liquid such, for instance, as oil or any varnish contained in a reservoir 39 supported between lugs 40 of the cheeks 3.

This rotary pasting member is constituted, in the example illustrated, by a segment 41 which is coated with the adhesive liquid by a pasting roll 42 and a transfer roll 43 with which the cylindrical portion of the segment 41 is brought into contact when the pinion 44, integral with the rotary pasting member, is actuated by the toothed segment 45 with which it is in engagement and which effects a rocking movement of predetermined amplitude, as will be explained hereafter.

This toothed segment 45 is for that purpose, integral with an arm 46 (Fig. '7) which is loosely mounted on the shaft 20 and is connected but temporarily to the latter through the medium of a lever 47 rigidly secured on the said shaft 20.

The arm 46 is provided, to that effect, with a slide-block 48 having slide-ways fitted on studs 50 of the arm 46 and respectively provided, at each of its ends, with a roller 51 and 52.

A spring 53 attached, on the one hand, to the aXis of the upper roller 51 and to one of the studs 50, is adapted to constantly bring back downwardly both rollers 51 and 52 mounted on the slide-block 48 and to engage the lower roller 52 in a suitable recess 54 of the lever 47 rigidly secured on the shaft 20.

The upper roller 51 encounters and engages, at a certain moment of the oscillation of the shaft 20, into a slide-way 55 provided in one of the lugs 40 and out of center relatively to the said shaft 20, for the purpose of producing, against the. action of the spring 53'the issue of the lower roller 52 from the recess 54 of the lever 47 and the stoppage of the toothed segment 45 in a predetermined position, the upper roller 51 abutting in the direction of the arrow X against the bottom of the slide way 55 in which it is engaged.

On the bed-plate 4 of the automatic interlining apparatus, is arranged a boss 56, the upper portion 57 of which constitutes an abutting surface with which comes in engagement the lower cross-bar 32 of the levers 27 near the end of the rocking movement of the shaft 20 in the direction of the arrow X; the rounded portion 58 of the said boss 56 forms a cam adapted to act on the cross-bar 28 of the arm 26, for the purpose of obtaining, as will be explained hereafter, at the end of the rocking movement of the shaft 26, the release of the space-line 2 by the arm 26 and the introduction, by the arm 27, of the said space-line in the double our tain 59 closing the galley This double curtain, which is controlled in the usual way, by a suitable member of the setting and casting machine. is provided with an automatic laying device adapted to place correctly the pasted space-line opposite the galley when the said space-line falls in the double curtain in a wrong posit ion.

This automatic laying device, illustrated in detail Figs. 11 to 13 is substantially composed of a metal plate 66 provided with an inclined slide-way 61 lifted on guidestuds 62 carried by one of the blades of the double curtain 59; the said plate 60 is urgl-rd, by a spring 63, to lit, in the lowered position of the double curtain, on the bottom of the galley as illustrated in Fig. 1.1.

It results from this arrangemeiu' that, when the double curtain is lifted in the usual manner (Fig. 13) for permitting the introduction, in the galley, of the line which has just been composed, the plate 60, urged downwardly by the spring 63, slides on the studs 62 integral with the double curtain and pushes the space-line 2 from the defective position illustrated, for instance Fig. 11, into the correct position shown in Fig. 13.

The automatic interlinin ap aratus above described, operates in t be following manner:

When a line of current composition for instance has been composed by means of movable types, similar to that shown in Fig. 1, this line is brought in the line channel opposite the galley by the book 14.

The shaft 20 is then driven in the direction of the arrow X by the rack 18 controlled by the cam 17 and the crank-pin 16 integral with the cam 13 of the machine for casting and setting movable types, as explained above. The actuation of the shaft 20 produces the simultaneous oscillation of the lovers 22 carrying the pincers 26,27 and of the lever 47 connected, by the roller 52, to the toothed segment 45, so that, in this example, the space-1ine 2, which is in the lower part of the magazine and which is clamped at its edges between the heel- )iece 37 of the arm 27 and the resilient bla e 36 of the arm 26, is extracted from the magazine and brought opposite the pasting member 41.

The latter receives a rotary movement on its axis by the displacement of the toothed segment 45 which is constantly in engagement with the pinion 44 integral with the pasting member 41.

The face of the space-line brought in contact with the said pasting member is therefore coated, during its passage opposite the latter, with a layer of adhesive or viscuous liquid contained in the reservoir 39.

At the end of the pasting operation, the roller 41., carried by the arm 46 integral with the toothed segment 15, engages in the slide-way so as to produce the progressive disengagement of the roller 52 from the recess 5-l provided in the driving arm 47 of the said segment and to thus release this arm 47, the roller 51 resting in the bottom of the slide-way 55 and holding, in a waiting position, the arm 16 loosely mounted on the shaft 20 and the toothed segment 15 which is integral with the latter andthus remains in engagement with the pinion 14C ofthepasting member ll (Fig. 7).

The arms 26, 27, formingthe pincers and the lever 47 ofathe toothed segment continue to accompany the shaft 20 in its rocking movement, the pasted space-line 2 being held in the same conditions as indicated above until the arms 26 and 27 arrive at the level of the boss 56.

The cross-bar 28 of the arms 26 then comes in contact with the portion 58 of the boss and slides on the said portion, in such a manner that the arms 26 move on their supporting axis 24 and that the resillent finger 36 of each of the arms 26 abandons the lower edge of the space-line 2 (Fig. 7).

During this time, the cross-bar 32 of the arms 27 encounters the upper part 57 of the boss 56, so that the said arms rock on their supporting axis 25, pushing the spaceline 2 downwardly, as clearly shown in Fig. 7.

This space-line, which has been brought, during the above rocking movement, above the double curtain 59, falls between the two blades of the latter, with the pasted face directed towards the last of the composed lines 6& previously introduced in the galley 15 by the push piece 65 of the setting and casting machine (Fig. 7).

The-operation of this machine produces, in the known manner, the lifting of the double curtain 59 and the introduction in the galley, through the medium of the push piece 65 of the line 66 which has been previously brought in the line channel by the hook 1 1 (Fig. 7).

This line 66 pushes before it the pasted space-line2 and introduces the latter in the recess 1 formed in each of the types of the last line 6% in the galley, so that the types forming the said line adhere to the spaceline and that the line thus formed can in.

this way be easily manipulated and corrected.

The return to the starting position illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6 of the pincers and of the lever 47 takes place at the same time as the raising of the double curtain 59.

last space-line, the said arms 27 sliding downwardly during this slight movement on their supporting axis 25 and being auto matically moved again upwardly, under the action of the spring 33, for permitting the engagement of the heel-piece 37 against the upper edge of the space-line 2, the lower edge of which is resiliently held pressed by the spring blade 36 of each arm 26, as shown in Figs. 3 and 6.

In the operation above described, it has been supposed that the interlining apparatus of the present invention places only a single space-line at a time, at each line of current composition and that the said spaceline is exactly brought by the pincers opposite the galley, but it is obvious that the apparatus might also, by the suitable adjustment of the position of thefingers 36 and of the heel-pieces 37 place any number of space-lines and, by the arrangement in the magazine of the supplementary supports 6", extract space-line elements and thus permit the tabular composition.

Owing to vibrations of the machine or from any other cause, this space-line or space-lines might occupy, relatively to the galley, a defective position as illustrated by way of example in Fig. 11, that is to say at a certain distance from the automatic laying device 60.

The raising of the double curtain then produces automatically, as previously explained, the displacement, on its inclined slide way, of the said automatic device 60 which pushes back longitudinally, under the no action of the spring 63, the space-line or space-lines 2 and brings them back in the correct position illustrated in Fig. 13.

The constructional arrangements above described are, of course, given by way of example only; the forms, materials and dimensions of the various constituent parts may be varied without departing thereby from the principle of the invention; the interlining apparatus may, moreover, simultaneously receive space-lines of great and small lengths, in order to permit, as explained the current and tabular compositions, the number of the space-lines extracted and placed at each line may also be varied for allowing the opening of the blank space, in view of the making up into pages.

Claims:

1. A machine permitting to extract and to place a space-line during the composing,

comprising: a magazine 6 containing the support for the released space-line, the second lever 26, also resiliently mounted,

carrying at its end a spring blade 36 adapt ed to maintain the released space-line pressed against the heel-piece 37 ot the first lever,

means for transmitting an angular displacement to the two levers above mentioned, a

cam 57 adapted to move backward the lever 26 at the end of the angular displacement and to produce a complementary angular displacement of the lever 27 for the double purpose of releasing the space-line and of pushing back towards the channel constituted between two lines of composition and between which the said space-line falls by its own Weight.

2. machine for the tabular composition permittlng. to release several space-lines at a time, comprlsing several magazlnes and a several extracting devices above set forth,

characterized by the fact that the various magazines placed in the train of each other the length of which corresponds to the length of a rule and divided by partitions.

3. A machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized by the fact that the intermittent rotary movement of the segment 41 is imparted to the latter by a toothed segment 45 gearing with the pinion 44 and integral with an actuating arm 46 which is connected but temporarily to the driving shaft 20 of the said segment through the medium of an arm 47 integral with the said shaft and of a bolt 48 which slides on the arm 46 and is provided with two rollers 51 and 52, the roller 51 being adapted to engage in a slideway 54 of the actuating arm 47 and the roller 52 in an eccentric fixed slide-way 55, for the purpose of producing, at the end of the pasting operation of the space-line, the issue of the roller 51 from the slide-way 54 and the stoppage, at this moment, of the rocking movement of the toothed segment 45.

The foregoing specification oi my automatic interlining apparatus for type setting and casting machines, signed by me this 6th day of April, 1922.

ENRICO GARDA. 

